I’ve been reading upon improve security and privacy. I was wondering how many mail addresses you should have. Is it one per social media, one for everything finance, … Next to this, are the mail addresses you use aliases or actual mail addresses and do you create them on outlook, proton or self host the mail server?

  • 0x0@programming.dev
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    16 days ago

    Depends on your threat modeling.

    I have an address to register in irrelevant sites and the provider is also irrelevant.

    I have an address for important use (utilities’ bills, government stuff, friends), currently tuta.

    I also have an alias there for occasional registrations.

    I’d try proton (has an .onion site) but they force you to supply a phone number or email address on registration, which for me defeats the purpose. They also leak a lot of links to clearnet.

    Self-hosting has become increasingly hard but I haven’t tried it.